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		glangdale on Sept 5, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows Shutdown crapfest (2006) There was a nice paper a while back on the topic of 'crash-only systems'. That is, the idea would be that no software system was permitted to have a dignified shutdown path at all. Every system would be turned off with the equivalent of the power switch or "kill -9". https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_paper... The point that was made was that frequently the recovery paths were on net faster (for a shutdown/reboot cycle) than the "durpee dur, I am slowly shutting myself down paths" and that you have to build a good crash recovery path anyhow.

lathiat on Sept 6, 2017 [–]

There's a storage vendor (hilariously for thread context) that took this to heart. They don't have a power button, just a switch. You turn it off.

I think it was Tintri?

pixl97 on Sept 6, 2017 | [–]

I'm pretty sure Dell MD3200's are like that.

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